Mark Z. Danielewski quotes

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind. (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. View quote
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I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real. View quote
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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. View quote
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Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done. View quote
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I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way. View quote
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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it. View quote
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At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful. View quote
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Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive. View quote
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We all create stories to protect ourselves. (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them. View quote
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Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold. View quote
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It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim. View quote
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Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times. View quote
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Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue. View quote
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The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours. View quote
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The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many. View quote
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I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me. View quote
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I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange. View quote
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Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding. (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts. View quote
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Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say. View quote
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Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space. View quote
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Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. View quote
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